XP Laptop BACKUP

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Hi all,

I'd like to backup the whole C: drive of my XP laptop including the OS.
It's possible I could image the drive to another XP machine, the question is
how would I then download the whole image in event of needing to reinstall
my laptop?

If anyone knows of a fabulous XP Laptop backup/restore method, please get in
touch, as your assistance is greatly appreciated.

The C drive is 55GB, data on there at the moment = 20GB

Many Thanks!
 
Chess Player said:
I'd like to backup the whole C: drive of my XP laptop including the OS.
It's possible I could image the drive to another XP machine, the question is
how would I then download the whole image in event of needing to reinstall
my laptop?
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Get a third-party imaging program like Norton Ghost for this purpose.
Detailled instructions should be found in the manual/on-line help.
 
I have a second partition D: on my laptop's HD and use TrueImage to create a
C: drive disk image and bootable rescue disk.
 
I've used Norton Ghost with great success for years. The newer versions
support burning images directly to CD-RW and DVD+/- drives. You can also use
the command line options to break the image into CD-sized chunks for later
CD archival if you don't happen to have a burner available. The option I use
most frequently, however, is to boot a machine with a DOS network-enabled
floppy and run Ghost from a network share. As Throston mentioned, the
documentation for Ghost will walk you through all of these options.
 
Norton Ghost helps you create a boot up disk that will take care of
restoring the image.

BootiNG is also good at copying and pasting an image of your entire
bootup partition. One restores by pasting it back. I did it last
weekend after some some freeware corrupted my main partition.

Good Luck

Colin
 
This is the question:
Is it possible to boot from floppy (DOS style) and connect to an XP
machine?
Cheers




I've used Norton Ghost with great success for years. The newer versions
support burning images directly to CD-RW and DVD+/- drives. You can also use
the command line options to break the image into CD-sized chunks for later
CD archival if you don't happen to have a burner available. The option I use
most frequently, however, is to boot a machine with a DOS network-enabled
floppy and run Ghost from a network share. As Throston mentioned, the
documentation for Ghost will walk you through all of these options.
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